May222017

If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in
sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. (…)

There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments.

The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

He just presented scientifically accurate information. That’s it. He presented gender and sexuality accurately. And people are mad.

People are mad that he did his job.

People are mad that the science guy told them about science.

Also I want to know how Bill Nye (and science and sex ed teachers everywhere) presenting accurate, scientifically-supported information to young people is “indoctrination”….

….but somehow parents insisting that their children be taught ONLY what jives with their own personal beliefs, and insisting on DISCOUNTING scientifically-supported facts based on religious principles, and refusing to acknowledge that young people can form their own opinions and deserve access to accurate information in order to do so….

….is not.

Because people like that think science is a religion. They don’t understand the concept of facts.